Imagine if you will, a journey of less than 200 km that takes 4 hours.

Well, I think the adjustment is almost complete, we have been awake during the day, and slept when it was dark. Of course this means that we will have to give up on the life of vampires. After waking up at 9am, and having a light breakfast, we said our goodbyes to our excellent hosts, and started our travel to Shimla, home for the next week or so.

Once again I am grateful that we are leaving the driving to a local. Even though we were traveling along a main (somewhat) highway, we climbed over 3500 feet in less than 200 kms, and most of that in the last 100 kms, I think we are now in the mountains. This is evident by the cool fresh air that is blowing through the house. I am positive that most Canadian would view the road we traveled as a poorly maintained logging road. I have to give the construction crews credit, since they were patching the asphalt in a few locations without any type of signage at all. In fact, the first sign that construction was taking place was the fellow spreading oil in the hole to be patched. After this there was a fellow pouring out the asphalt and another on the roller.

This is all the more amazing since it seemed at times we were on the upward part of a roller coaster, and then suddenly another set of cars would appear on our left right side going the same direction, and sometimes a car from the other direction on your tracks. (Honking their horn of course). I think I discovered an upgraded version of the hand shield we saw in Old Delhi). At the same time, it may be obvious that you should never pass on the inside of a curve, but there was only one curve marked as such, so I guess (and it was proved through actual experience) that passing trucks on the inside was allowed, especially if you had a fully loaded scooter, (2 adults, and two children).

Next: Are you sure we have to leave the house, those hills look pretty steep.